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Top 5 Overlooked War Films | Panic Dots
With The Hurt Locker being the first war film to be awarded the Best Picture Oscar in nearly 25 years (the last war film to earn the academy's top honour was Platoon in 1986) we count down the top 5 war films to have been overlooked ... about the triangle that develops between a British journalist in his fifties, a young American idealist and a Vietnamese girl, but it is also deals with the political turmoil and growing American involvement that led to the Vietnam War. ...
Views from the UK 2006: The Hurt Locker - Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Have to admit the above might sound harsh but after so many Vietnam War films, Platoon and Born on the 4th of July, the Hurt Locker did recall a previous age in film making, not a celebration of War but not an attack, and that's a lot ...
Must Watch Movies Online: Tropic Thunder | jackmusic
As you probably know from the trailers, the film follows a group of actors starring in a Vietnam war film. When they get taken out into the jungle for some hardcore training to get into character, they wind up getting more than they ...
Erica Abeel: An Academy Conspiracy Against Foreign Films?
The fear of being labeled anti-US troops is heavy and powerful, a legacy from the Vietnam War. As for The Messenger, a stunning "implicit" anti-war film. After the film brings home the cost of the war, the audience then balances in ...
Vietnam War Combat Assault Easter Sunday 1971 | Tailspin
Vietnam War Combat Assault in Vietnam on April 11, 1971. I took this movie, M-16 one hand and 8mm camera in other. Dedicated to the 174th Sharks, Dolphins, 116th Hornets & other Aviation units who supported Grunts in Vietnam. Also dedicated to the 15 men .... Thanks for the nice compliments, my videos are being converted in HD right now. Not sure how much, but a lot of my film will be used in a new documentary on HC. Will keep all apprised, I should get footage back soon. ...
When the Vietnam War raged... in the Philippines: No Blood No ...
And trust me most of these films deliver in the entertainment department in a biiig way. Oh, and if you're puzzled about why they made all these Vietnam War movies in the Philippines even though the Philippines never took part in the ...
3/11-14: The Third Man, Daniel Ellsberg doc, new Herzog/Lynch ...
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's film recounts how Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, leaked 7000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times in 1971 after concluding that the war was based ...
werewolf » The Hurt Locker: In Praise of War (Films)
But will Kathryn Bigelow's film be this year's Brokeback Mountain? by Gordon Campbell. Obviously, war movies are fiction – there is an entire generation whose mental images of the Vietnam War owe more to Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver ...
Genius Rock Chef, AKA Hot Stuff: Musical Time Travel
I guess watching the war movies added to my wonder at the situation in Vietnam - if John Wayne and the Green Berets couldn't clean things up, what hope was there? Stay tuned for a song from my College days! ... have 4 kids - 2 boys(11 and 15), a girl (13) and another daughter who died in 2005 at the age of 17. My hobbies are wargaming and playing guitar (6 string electric and 4 and 5 string and fretless bass). I love spoof movies, which the kids call "Dad's stupid films". ...
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